Beyond Length of Stay: How Hospitals Are Transforming Capacity Management Strategies

As short staffing and operations challenges mount, US health system leaders have pivoted to length-of-stay management as an efficiency opportunity to optimize throughput logistics, increase capacity and reduce margin pressures. But is “begin discharge planning for patients upon admission” merely a goal without a plan? Are there key patient throughput drivers applicable across hospitals of different sizes, clinical models, and levels of performance? Novel but proven strategies which can streamline discharge processes without compromising the patient care experience?

Learn how hospital leaders and frontline teams across hospitals of various sizes leveraged proven strategies and intelligent workflow automation to streamline hospital discharge processes and increase access to care by achieving:

• Reduced length of stay
• Reduced ED boarding
• Reduced discharge processing time